Posted on 06/29/2016 10:31:48 AM PDT by rdl6989
Maybe Johnny Manziel is taking seriously all the good advice people keep giving him to clean up his act.
At least he says he plans to, after this one sweet kegger he’s throwing in Mexico.
Manziel told TMZ that he’s “going completely sober starting July 1st.”
(Excerpt) Read more at profootballtalk.nbcsports.com ...
Ricky Williams was hooked on “Don’t Worry, Be Happy, and don’t Bogart the Fritos, please” weed and is still alive and smiling. Manziel is in a genuinely lethal downward spiral of booze and drugs. Hopefully, he’ll still have a pulse when he hits bottom but there’s a good chance he won’t.
You make a great point - advertising that you are quitting is a bad move.
A person should not quit for external motives, but rather internal ones. It has to come from within, because if the external influence is removed (like a person who is coaching you no longer coaches you, for instance), failure is preordained.
I’ve seen it with cigs as well as hard drugs. It’s gotta come from within.
That said, I’d be Johnny’s friend if he bought me drugs. That’s what good friends do.
It was her father and he did a very good job. If it were her mother, who pushed her and her sister into show business, I would say it was all about protecting her “investment”.
NEVER trust an addict.
They are the the lowest human beings on earth while they are using. They simply are slaves to their addiction, and therefore everything else, including family, truth, basic morality, is secondary.
The ole Wimpy excuse: I’ll gladly enter rehab next week for a wild party tonight.
Yeah, and I think I’ll start a diet to lose those extra pounds . . . next month.
But not yesterday.
Proof he’s not taking it serious.
The more you try to quit, the more likely you will have success against your addiction.
(government studies have shown)
Series.
At this point, who cares? He’s a pampered punk and he will never be taken seriously again.
At this point, the guy’s future success, if any, involves Kardashians or reality tv, not pro football. At least he’s keeping himself in the news, from that perspective.
the media loves a train wreck.
Congratulations!.............
Getting sober and staying sober is not something I care to joke about. With nearly 22 1/2 years sober, I take is seriously—life an d death seriously.
Here is the career of Todd Marinovich.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Todd_Marinovich
I takes character an discipline, to play pro football.
Maybe somebody has convinced Johnny M. to start a new life. In his case it is not too late.
But to do so sobriety must be the most important factor in his life—more important than even football or money.
Works a little better when you say yesterday was the last drink.
He should just tell the world what I’ve told my wife repeatedly over the years: “I’ve never been a quitter.”
Yep. Not one with a happy ending.
I got his back,he made a 1st step
If he got straight and had, say, John Elway type skills and physique
an NFL team might take a minimum salary chance with him. But he doesn’t and they won’t.
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